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Hear Our Voices... The "Hear Our Voices" Campaign, in support of the broader CAP theme and events throughout 2004, will profile human success stories of how the CAP has worked positively in countries covered by the Appeals. In essence, this campaign will help put a human face on the CAP to show the media, the international community and publics in donor countries the vale of well funded and coordinated Appeals for saving human lives and helping restore communities.
Joeveth’s StoryJoeveth is 12 years old, a land-mine victim and orphan. He sits with other children on a bench, his crutch at his side, at the UNICEF-assisted Erois de Kuito Centre for war orphans in the town of Kuito in central Angola. The civil war in Angola, which lasted for more than two decades, has contributed to the death of some 500,000 children. It has created 70,000 amputees, including 8,000 children under the age of five. The country's infrastructure has been largely destroyed. Twenty-five per cent of its schools and clinics and 75 per cent of small-town and rural water supplies are in need of repair or replacement. With 12 million landmines, Angola is Africa's most heavily mined country. There are some 150-200 new victims each week. UNICEF is supporting landmine awareness campaigns, the demobilization of soldiers, especially child soldiers, and special camps for war-orphaned children and displaced people made destitute by the war. UNICEF also runs programmes in primary health care, nutrition, water and sanitation, and agricultural rehabilitation.
Our posters were produced in collaboration with UN Works
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